1 Year Of Beginning

"Xiao Ai?"

Feng Mian could not believe that the one who gathered the information was actually Zhang Ai. From what she had seen before, Zhang Ai looked like a bubbly teenager. If not because she knew Zhang Ai's real age, she would have never have guessed it in her entire life.

Zhang Liang nodded. "Xiao Ai is popular and has a lot of friends. She already asked some of her friends to search for some information about you and sent it to them."

"Uh… is it bad?"

"You can see it yourself." Zhang Liang took out his phone and opened a doc.u.ment before he handed it to Feng Mian.

Taking the phone, Feng Mian began to read the information written. At the very front was her CV and afterwards, there was some information about her when she was in university. It detailed how she managed to manage her time well even when she had to work and study at the same time.

When Feng Mian was reading, she even doubted that it was herself. The content was simply too good!

"Finished reading?"

Feng Mian glanced over to Zhang Liang. "Did you…?"

"Changed it? Not really, I just asked some of my friends to push your information to Zhang Ai."

"How about rumors?"

Zhang Liang smiled as he took the phone back from Feng Mian. "My mother was a normal saleswoman before she married my father. She hated rumors, so she'll spank us without mercy if we dared to believe rumors over facts."

Hearing that, Feng Mian nearly laughed out loud. Her mind unconsciously imagined Zhang Liang getting spanked. Thinking about it, he must have gotten a lot of punishment back in his youth.

"Are there no other Zhang Family members?"

"Don't you have your own research?"

"Well, I only know that your family consists of five people, Zhang Yi, Zhang Xue and his wife, you, and lastly Zhang Ai."

"It should be six."

"Eh?"

"You forgot to include yourself." Zhang Liang pointed to Feng Mian.

Feng Mian: "..." should I count myself when it's just a year's contract?

"And no, my father cut off his relative's relation with him when they were against him marrying my mother. Other Zhang Family members didn't live in the capital city anymore."

"Is it fine to cut ties?"

"It ended up good. My Father inherited several companies from my grandfather before that and decided to continue building it. Even without the support of other relatives, he still achieved his success."

Feng Mian nodded in admiration. Zhang Liang's father is truly amazing.

"I see. How about sister in law?"

Zhang Liang smiled lightly. "She's the general manager in the hotel which my brother inherited. She came from the Lu Family as their branch family members."

"Lu Family is quite big, right?"

"Yes. They're among the 10 top families in this country. However, she herself didn't have much connection to her family. If you want to know, you can ask when you met her in the future."

"Uh, maybe not."

Feng Mian didn't want to be nosy and began to ask many things to them. She was not sure that it would be appropriate too.

"You can act more confident as my wife."

Feng Mian nodded. She was not sure how to act more confident. "If my acting is not convincing, wouldn't your father and sister become suspicious?"

"Even if they realize there's something wrong, they won't meddle immediately and wait first," Zhang Liang said lightly. "There's an unwritten agreement in our family that we are free to date and marry the one they loved since we already enter the modern time. However, should the relationship end in failure, it would be our father's turn to arrange the date and marriage. At this point, we can't refuse no matter what."

Hearing that, Feng Mian was astonished. She never knew that there was that kind of tradition. "It's possible?"

"Only because this is the modern time. I'm sure you already know that it's impossible in older times."

"True enough," Feng Mian smiled bitterly. Back then, the younger generation couldn't have a voice in their relationship and marriage. Everything would be determined by their parents.

"But I thought that your father already meddled?"

Zhang Liang recalled that he met Feng Mian directly aside from work when she encountered a scene in the company. He pursed his lips. "Father just love to create trouble."

"I see." Like father, like son.

"Next time, I'll think about the acting," Zhang Liang added. "There's no need to worry so much and just enjoy your time."

"Ok."

Internally, Feng Mian felt that she should have tried to enter an acting class before this. That way, she would be better in acting compared to her horrible performance not long ago.

She turned her head outside when she noticed that she was unfamiliar with the streets. Her brows creased. "Where are we going?"

"My house."

"What?"

Zhang Liang looked at Feng Mian and explained once more, "You'll be living together with me."

"…"